Multi-media Specialist Contractor

Job Highlight

Translate complex Digital Inclusion work into clear, high-quality visual outputs that senior decision-makers can act on. This role owns the end-to-end production of multimedia content—from presentation decks and data visualisations to video and event collateral—working directly from raw inputs to final delivery with minimal iteration. You will embed AI-assisted production across the workflow to increase speed and scale, while setting and enforcing the visual standard across all outputs so that materials are consistently credible, coherent, and effective in high-stakes institutional contexts.

About UNOPS

UNOPS Geneva Office is providing support to a wide range of portfolios, including UNEP, UNICEF, UNHCR, and other partners. This position is a Partner Personnel role. The selected candidate will be hired by UNOPS under its rules and regulations and will be engaged as UN Partner Personnel for UNICEF - Digital Inclusion and will operate under the effective management and supervision of UNICEF.

About UNICEF Digital Inclusion

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. UNICEF’s Digital Inclusion team accelerates access to affordable, sustainable, safe and resilient digital infrastructure for every child. We do so by supporting governments and partners to expand equitable and affordable connectivity across child-facing service locations such as schools, health facilities, and social protection locations, and addressing related infrastructure such as electricity and compute. Our work empowers children and their communities through information, opportunity, choice and dignity.

Role Purpose

Under the supervision and general guidance of the Communication and Advocacy Manager, work in close coordination with the peer Communication Specialist, together forming a lean, high-output unit – speed and versatility are structural requirements of the position. The Multi-media Specialist Contractor will:

• Serve as the visual and creative production lead, delivering across the full spectrum of visual formats: presentation decks, data visualisations, short-form video, motion graphics, brand assets, event collateral, and assets for web and social media channels.
• Set and maintain the visual standard required for the team's primary audiences — senior government officials, bilateral donors, multilateral institutions, and partner organisations — bringing visual thinking to the substance of programme work.
• Apply AI-assisted production tools as standard practice across the workflow — including generative design, layout iteration, subtitle and translation pipelines, video editing, and batch asset generation — to sustain output quality and volume that would otherwise require additional resourcing.

Functions / Key Results Expected

• Multimedia Content Development, Production & Delivery: Deliver end-to-end multimedia outputs across short- and long-form video, audio, and digital formats for online, in-person, and event use. Manage the full production lifecycle from brief to final delivery — scripting, storyboarding, sourcing or recording, editing, and subtitling.
• Presentation Design: Design clean, authoritative presentation decks and visual briefing materials calibrated for senior institutional audiences including donors, INGOs, and government counterparts.
• Data Visualisation: Transform programme data into clear, publication-ready visualisations.
• Video & Motion Graphics: Produce short-form video and motion graphics for donors, partners, and social channels, managing the full production cycle from concept through editing, subtitling, and publishing.
• Brand System & Visual Identity: Contribute to, apply and maintain the visual identity and distinct brand systems across Digital Inclusion outputs.
• AI-Augmented Production: Apply AI production tools as standard practice across the full workflow.
• Events & Engagement Collateral: Produce visual collateral, signage, and branded materials for convenings, roundtables, conferences, and high-level engagements.
• Web Presence & Analytics: Coordinate and co-manage web presence and CMS with the Communications Specialist editorial counterpart role.

Education Requirements

An advanced university degree (Master's or higher) in a relevant field plus a minimum of five years of professional work experience. A first-level university degree (Bachelor's) combined with two additional years of qualifying experience may be considered in lieu of an advanced degree.

Experience Requirements

5+ years in visual communications, multimedia design, or production, with a portfolio demonstrating capability across presentation design, data visualisation, video, motion graphics, and brand identity.

Desired

Brand and visual identity management: Experience maintaining and evolving a visual identity system across sub-brands or co-branding contexts with institutional partners.

CMS administration and web analytics: Hands-on experience with CMS platforms and comfort using web analytics tools to track and report on content performance.

Multi-stakeholder collaboration: Experience working across editorial, programme, partnerships, and institutional functions in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.